Good evening.

A brief addendum to Recruit Rivers' report.


Hartman, out.

As I launched on patrol today from battleship mississippi, I had the signal of the transport supplying Luckenbach base on scanners again. As I had read the recent reply of Lt. Cmdr. Hartman, I felt there was an opportunity to bring the message to the transport personally, since I had spoken with him in the first place.

As such I did take the liberty to send a brief message informing him that the base registration was confirmed and that there was no problem at all. I also apologised for any inconvenience we may have caused and wished him a good day.

The rest of my patrol was uneventful and I only encountered three rookie pilots from the Liberty Rogues who tried to attack me in the north dallas debris field. I dealt with them swiftly and brought their escape pods back to battleship Mississipi where I landed.


sincerely,
Sandra Rivers

Greetings, sirs.


Captain Polstari, signing off.

My day began with an emergency alarm that was rang on battleship Mississippi, or the ol'Miss, as many people onboard refer to the aged warship. In a hasted mission briefing it was made clear to the stationed pilots on board that a group of Rheinland warships of the RNC designation had intruded into the Texas system and needed to be dealt with.

We Mississipi pilots were sent as a support for the main LNS fleet.

As my turn to launch came, the situation had been dealt with and it turned out I was not needed at the scene.

However, another situation had come up in the meantime. According to the LNS communication there had been an unregistered base in the Cortez system that apparently sheltered enemies of Liberty. The base owner had been give notice and time to respond but as no response arrived I assume the Navy decided to act.


I entered formation with the main fleet and moved to the Cortez system with them. One [LN] pilot Jay.Wilton and myself went ahead to scout the situation before the main fleet would move in.

Upon our arrival at the base we saw a giant structure nearby that turned out to be a barge class transport that docked at the target base Golden Bay.

When the mainfleet moved in it did not take long for a group of freelance defenders to appear who tried to involve us into combat and distract us from the base.
Among them were CGS| tagged ships, independant freelancers and Reaver Mercenaries (Titanium and Morena). We met stiff resistance considering the base was not built by any large organisation or corporation.

For a while the attack was interrupted as bombers tried to attack and take out the LNS fleet but fortunately they could be defeat one by one over the course of the battle.

Eventually the siege resumed but this is when things started to get really weird. I do not remember the full extent of the bizarre happenings, but I will try to recollect as best as I can.
First, an IMG iffed ship approached and upon being asked to leave due to military operations attacked us (Guncam image, Guncam image, Guncam Image), then after it was defeated came back and started ramming our fleet ships. After this iteration was defeated as well it returned once more, with a slightly altered name "Corsaire~Pierre.Anvil" which looks like he wanted to dress up as a corsair this time. After attacking us and having been annoying and somewhat hard to understand for a while, as he was speaking strange gibberish, we managed to defeat him and go on about our business.

We suspect that this person was a severe case of the [url=]lawl's syndrome[/url] in an advanced and deterioated state.

After that a Zoner carrier appeared and started attacking us (Guncam Image along with a freelancer Gunboat... both kept reappearing after defeat... again... and again... and again... and again... and again... until we all stopped counting.
This is was one of the most obvious cases of the "lawl syndrome" being exhibited that I ever witnessed. Fortunately, one of the A.D.M.I.N.S. arrived at the scene and swiftly dealt with the "lol-wutters" as lawl-syndrome patients are generally referred to.

After those two were dealt with the siege could continue until a gallic battleship arrived and started to attack us. Of course, we expected non-sensical things like this by now and dealt with the attacker swiftly after we gave warning and chances to leave the area without causing an incident.

Of course, this battleship appeared several times as well and honestly, if it weren't for the many witnesses I would be questioning my own sanity by now.

Anyways, after this was dealt with as well, the base finally crumbled and broke apart under the combined fleet's firepower. I had been in space for a very long time by now and promptly set course back to the New York system where I landed at Norfolk shipyard for repairs and servicing before returning to the Texas system and landing at battleship Mississippi.


I have to say this was the longest and most intense sortie I have ever been in my brief time with the Liberty Navy. and I enver expected that I would see such so soon after I graduated from the navy academy.
I am glad that the mission was a success and that I made it out alive. My flight recorder even shows 3 confirmed victories. (Guncam image, Guncam image, Guncam image)


Sandra Rivers

This is going to be a brief report. Another emergency call went throughout the Mississippi and all pilots were called to scramble on emergency response to defend against an incoming rheinland fleet.

Unfortunately I just had to be under the shower in that moment, so I launched as one of the last.

Never the less, I saw enough of the combat scene yet, there were warships, gunboats, bombers and fightercraft. What struck me as really odd about this attack was that the rheinland gunboat forces were mostly, if not exclusively composed of bounty hunter gunships of the "Bottlenose" classification.

Not that I have seen many battles, but I honestly wonder if the Bounty Hunter's Guild is aware of that and what they would have to say about it.

Anyways, the battle proceeded in our favor. Despite losses we were able to push their assault back. I was under fire myself several times as fighter craft and bombers attacked me hoping for an easy kill but I withdrew into cover fire as my bomber is ill suited to match with space superiority fighters.

There was one pilot of note that I found intrigueing, one BDM|U-Hanswurst. He held his own against four or five of our craft attacking, plus a mercenary as far as I could see. I have seldomly seen such flying, it almost seemed as if it was madness or insanity. Maybe this pilot was infected? Who knows...

At any rate, once the rheinlanders had retreated I landed on battleship mississippi and went to the briefing room for debriefing.

Sandra Rivers

After launching, I met with pilot Johnson (LNS_Bombardier), who also was assigned to the texas system, only one week before I was. We flew many missions together in the recent days. He is a good capable pilot and he has given excellent cover against attacking space superiority fighter craft many times.

Today we were sent to the North Dallas debris field in order to take out a heavily defended installation that was currently being built by the Liberty Rogues. The mission was a success and both the weapons platforms as well as the station was swiftly dealt with. Johnson dealt with the remaining fightercraft when suddenly a rheinland cruiser appeared on scanners.

I notified my superiors immediately and went in pursuit together with Johnson. The rheinland cruiser was headed for the New York jumphole in the Texas system.

Unfortunately we lost the cruiser during the jumphole transition to New York. But at that time our orders came in and we were to set course to Zone 21 and patrol there as an attack was taking place apparently. When we arrived there we found noone there and requested orders again. We were to search the area but just as we began, we received comm traffic about a fight in California against the Indians. We were to abort our search and head to California for support as we had no contact on scanners anyways, Zone 21 was clear.

Once we arrived there, the attackers were already dealt with and the remaining forces quickly defeated the last attacker.

After that, Johnson and I set course to Texas again and while he remained behind to deal with a system malfunction (I assume he will report in later) I arrived at the Mississippi and reported in the briefing room for debriefing.

Sandra Rivers